Comment on Realistcly how much can be cleaned out of a house, as a child of a hourder?
quick_snail@feddit.nl 5 days ago
Wow, lots of asshole saying to throw things away. Don’t throw things away!
Hire an estate sale agent, who will be paid by the sales. They’ll use eBay and marketplace and all the local places to find good homes for anything of value. That’s their job.
Anything you can’t sell, donate.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I don’t think you know what a difficult situation that is. Getting rid of things for money is hard, and believe it or not, even donating things can be difficult. If you hire someone they’re going to pick through everything over several days (depending on the amount of stuff) and probably not take much if they have to store it themselves for sale, or charge you for storage rental if it’s a lot, and things don’t sell quickly or maybe not at all. Places taking donations will only accept certain things any more, we know this from personal experience, they only want stuff they know that will sell. So you’re left carting around a (probably rented) truck-full of stuff trying to find anyone that will take it only to wind up bringing a lot back home.
It’s far easier to rent a haul-away waste bin and do a cleanout in a day.
One last option, depending on the country if they allow it or there’s space to do so, is a “curb alert”. Advertise the cleanout on whatever social media or classified ad and state the kind of items available and just put them on the curb for people to take for free. Whatever’s left at the end of the day goes in the bin to be hauled off.